Why ecological revolution?

Monthly Review

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1-18

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EID: 77950163446     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-061-08-2010-01_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (68)

1. On the long-term aspects of the current financial-economic crisis, see John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, The Great Financial Crisis (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009).
2. James E. Hansen, "Strategies to Address Global Warming" (July 13, 2009), http//www. columbia.edu.
3. Ibid.; "Seas Grow Less Effective at Absorbing Emissions," New York Times, November 19, 2009;
4. S. Khatiwala. F. Primeau and T. Hall, "Reconstruction of the History of Anthropogenic CO2 Concentrations in the Ocean," Nature 462, no.9 (November 2009), 346-350
5. Agence France Presse (AFP), "UN Warns of 70 Percent Desertification by 2025," October 4, 2005.
6. Ulka Kelkar and Suruchi Badwal, South Asian Regional Study on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, UN Human Development Report 2007/2008: Occasional Paper, undp.org.
7. "Arctic Seas Turn to Acid, Putting Vital Food Chain at Risk," October 4, 2009, http://www. guardian.com.uk.
8. Hansen, "Strategies to Address Global Warming";
9. AFP, "Top UN Climate Scientist Backs Ambitious C02 Cuts," August 25, 2009.
10. On the Jevons Paradox, see John Bellamy Foster, The Ecological Revolution (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2009), 121-128
11. Bill McKibben, "Response," in Tim Flannery, Now or Never (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009), 116;
12. Al Gore, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis (Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2009), 327.
13. Friends of the Earth, "Subprime Carbon?" (March 2009), http://www.foe.org/ subprimecarbon, and
14. A Dangerous Obsession (November 2009), www.foe.co.uk/resources/ reports/dangerous-obsession.pdf;
15. James E. Hansen, "Worshipping the Temple of Doom" (May 5, 2009), http//www.columbia.edu.
16. Brian Tokar, "Toward Climate Justice: Can We Turn Back from the Abyss?" Z Magazine, vol.22, no.9 (September 2009), http://www. zmag.org/zmag/Sep2009;
17. Hansen, "Strategies to Address Global Warming"; Greenpeace, Business as Usual (October 20, 2009), http:// www.greenpeace.org.
18. James Lovelock, The Revenge of Gaia (New York: Basic Books, 2006), and
19. The Vanishing Face of Gaia (New York: Basic Books, 2009), 139-58;
20. Gore, Our Choice, 314-15.
21. Hansen, it should be noted, also places hope in the development of fourth generation nuclear power as part of the solution. See James Hansen, Storms of My Grandchildren (New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2009), 194-204.
22. Gore, Our Choice, 303, 320, 327, 330-32, 346.
23. Karl Marx, Capital, vol.1 (London: Penguin 1976), 247-80.
24. On how Marx's M-C-M' formula serves to define the "regime of capital," see Robert Heilbroner, The Nature and Logic of Capitalism (New York: W.W. Norton, 1985), 33-77.
25. Karl Marx, Grundrisse (London: Penguin, 1973), 334-35, 409-10, and
26. Capital, vol.1, 742;
27. John Bellamy Foster, "Marx's Grundrisse and the Ecological Contradictions of Capitalism," in Marcelo Musto, Karl Marx's Grundrisse (New York: Routledge, 2008), 100-102
28. Marx, Capital, vol.1, 552-553
29. The discussion of the Lauderdale Paradox is based on John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, "The Paradox of Wealth," Monthly Review 61, no.6 (November 2009): 1-18.
30. Karl Marx, Capital, vol.3, (London: Penguin, 1981), 949,
31. Critique of the Gotha Programme (New York: International Publishers, 1938), 3, 15.
32. John Maynard Keynes, "National SelfSufficiency," in Collected Writings (London: Macmillan/Cambridge University Press, 1982), vol.21, 241-242
33. Karl Marx, Capital, vol.1,636-39,
34. Capital, vol.3, 948-50, and
35. Capital, vol.2 (London: Penguin 1978), 322;
36. Foster, The Ecological Revolution, 161-200.
37. See Foster, "Marx's Grundrisse and the Ecological Contradictions of Capitalism," 98-100.
38. Marx, Capital, vol.1, 914-926
39. Marx, Capital, vol.1, 381.
40. Marx, Capital, vol.1, 496;
41. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works (New York: International Publishers, 1975), vol.33, 400;
42. Gore, Our Choice, 365.
43. James Hansen, et al., "Target Atmospheric CO2: Where Should Humanity Aim?" Open Atmospheric Science Journal 2 (2008): 217-31;
44. James E. Hansen, "Response to Dr. Martin Parkinson, Secretary of the Australian Department of Climate Change" (May 4, 2009), http://www.columbia.edu;
45. Hansen, "Strategies to Address Global Warming" and "Worshipping the Temple of Doom";
46. Frank Ackerman, et al., "The Economics of 350," October 2009, www. e3network.org, 3-4.
47. James E. Hansen, "The Sword of Damocles" (February 15, 2009),
48. "Coal River Mountain Action" (June 25, 2009),
49. and "I Just Had a Baby, at Age 68" (November 6, 2009), http://www. columbia.edu;
50. Ken Ward, "The Night I Slept with Jim Hansen" (November 11, 2009), www. grist.org.
51. Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer, Dead Heat (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002).
52. John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, and Robert W. McChesney, "The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending," Monthly Review 60, no.5 (October 2008), 9-13.
53. The Bamako Appeal can be found in Samir Amin, The World We Wish to See (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2008), 107-134
54. An important source in understanding Cuban developments is the film "The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil," http:// www.powerofcommunity.org/cm/index.php.
55. On Venezuela see Christina Schiavoni and William Camacaro, "The Venezuelan Effort to Build a New Food and Agriculture System," Monthly Review 61, no.3 (July-August 2009): 129-141
56. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Holy Family (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1956), 52.
57. Translation follows Paul M. Sweezy, Modern Capitalism and Other Essays (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972), 149.
58. Sweezy, Modern Capitalism, 164.
59. John Bellamy Foster, "The Vulnerable Planet Fifteen Years Later," Monthly Review 54, no.7 (December 2009): 17-19.
60. On the climate justice movement see Tokar, "Toward Climate Justice."
61. Marx, Capital, vol.3, 1959.
62. On the elementary triangles of socialism and ecology see Foster, The Ecological Revolution, 32-35.
63. The failure of Soviet-type societies to conform to these elementary triangles goes a long way toward explaining their decline and fall, despite their socialist pretensions. See John Bellamy Foster, The Vulnerable Planet (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999), 96-101.
64. Lewis Mumford, The Condition of Man (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973), 411;
65. Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, 10:
66. John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1904), 453-455
67. Marx, Capital, vol.3, 911, 959.
68. Paul Burkett, "Marx's Vision of Sustainable Human Development," Monthly Review 57, no.5 (October 2005): 34-62.